The Time I Still Can Give | Progressive Rock

The Time I Still Can Give | Progressive Rock Original lyrics (written version) Some nights I borrow someone else's ending Wear it till the morning finds the seams The one who left before the fear could settle The one who never doubted what it means I give that life the best of every season I never let its ordinary days begin Then hold it up against the life I'm living And wonder why this one looks thin I don't have to call it fate To stop asking it for proof There are things I couldn't keep There are things I chose too soon I can grieve who I might have been Without leaving who I am The life I have is asking For the time I still can give I used to think the ache was an instruction That wanting meant I'd taken the wrong turn But every life I picture has a silence And something that it never gets to learn I loved someone and couldn't make it simple I stayed too long in places I outgrew Not every wound can offer me a lesson Not every year was something to undo I don't have to call it fate To stop asking it for proof There are things I couldn't keep There are things I chose too soon I can grieve who I might have been Without leaving who I am The life I have is asking For the time I still can give I thought acceptance meant that I was finished That wanting more was something I should hide But I can ask for more without accusing Every year that brought me here tonight There are people who have known me without winning Who don't need another version to appear I have been so busy missing who I wasn't I've been hard to find while standing here Some losses cannot teach me Some doors are only closed I don't owe the hurt a reason Just to let the rest be real I can carry what is missing Without making it the whole I can turn toward the living While I still don't understand I don't have to call it fate Or forgive it all tonight There are other ways to lose me Than the roads I left behind I can grieve who I might have been And be here as who I am The life I have is asking For the time I still can give There are things I may change tomorrow There is someone I can call tonight I don't have to know the ending To be here for this part Next listen — Loose Bearings | Alternative Rock:    • Loose Bearings | Alternative Rock   More Rock & Progressive Rock:    • Rock & Progressive Rock   Tempo Orchard    / @tempoorchard